Caroline Kennedy

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy born November 27 1957 is an American author attorney and diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador to Australia since 2022 Kennedy previously served in the Obama administration as the United States ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017 She is a member of the Kennedy family and the only surviving child of John F Kennedy the 35th president of the United States and former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Less than a month before Carolines third birthday her father won the 1960 presidential election She spent her early childhood years in the White House during his presidency and was almost six when he was assassinated on November 22 1963 The following year she and her brother John F Kennedy Jr moved with their mother Jacqueline to the Upper East Side of Manhattan where Caroline attended grade school Kennedy graduated from Harvard University and worked at Manhattans Metropolitan Museum of Art where she met her future husband exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg She later earned a JD degree from Columbia Law School Most of Kennedys professional life has been in law politics education reform and charitable work She has also acted as a spokesperson for her familys legacy especially that of her father and coauthored two books with Ellen Alderman on civil liberties Early in the primary race for the 2008 presidential election Kennedy and her uncle Ted Kennedy endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama She later stumped for him in Florida Indiana and Ohio served as cochair of his Vice Presidential Search Committee and addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver